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The Moon on Sunday, June 28, 1998: Waxing Crescent, 20% lit

Waxing · 20.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 00°

Moon age

4.3days

Moon phase on June 28, 1998Waxing Crescent

Sunday 28 June 1998393,567 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 28, 1998, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 20.3% of its visible face lit, 4.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

20.3%Illumination at noon UTC
4.3 dMoon age
393,567 km244,551 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (0°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 28, 1998 is on Thursday, July 9, 1998 at 16:01 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 03:50 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, June 24, 199803:50
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, July 1, 199818:43

The Moon around June 28

More about this date

Sunday, June 28, 1998 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 24, 1998 to the new moon of July 23, 1998, a cycle of 29.41 days.